Kate Beckinsale of 'Love & Friendship' will receive Cinema Vanguard Award
Kate Beckinsale will be the latest recipient of the prize following such recent honorees as Adrien Brody and Beau Bridges. Beckinsale starred in the Austen adaptation 'Love & Friendship' earlier this year.
Kate Beckinsale poses at the 'Love and Friendship' premi猫re at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles in 2016.
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Actress Kate Beckinsale will receive the Cinema Vanguard Award at this year鈥檚 San Diego International Film Festival following the release of Ms. Beckinsale鈥檚 well-received movie 鈥淟ove and Friendship,鈥� for which Beckinsale received praise for her performance.
Beckinsale will be the latest recipient of the award following recent honorees such as Adrien Brody and Beau Bridges.聽
The film festival will take place from Sept. 28 to Oct. 2. Movies being screened there will include 鈥淐rossing Bhutan,鈥� 鈥淗ouse of Norway,鈥� 鈥淐itizen Soldier,鈥� and 鈥淯nderfire: The Untold Story.鈥�
鈥淜ate is a wonderful performer and we couldn鈥檛 be happier to present her with the Cinema Vanguard Award, which is an indication of all the fine work she has done in such a wide variety of film roles,鈥� of Beckinsale being selected.
Beckinsale has appeared in such movies as 鈥淭he Aviator,鈥� 鈥淪erendipity,鈥� and 鈥淢uch Ado About Nothing.鈥� She is set to return to the blockbuster 鈥淯nderworld鈥� franchise in the upcoming movie 鈥淯nderworld: Blood Wars,鈥� which will open this coming January.聽
It was the Jane Austen adaptation 鈥淟ove & Friendship,鈥� which was released earlier this year, and Beckinsale鈥檚 performance in it that particularly caught the attention of reviewers recently.聽
called the film 鈥渄roll, deviously charming鈥� and wrote that 鈥渇ew [of Beckinsale鈥檚 previous projects] hint 鈥� at the comic ability she displays here.鈥� agreed, calling the film 鈥渇leet and funny鈥� and writing that Beckinsale has a 鈥渨icked facility with dialogue.鈥澛�
While wrote that he felt the film 鈥渓acks the stirring emotional hooks found in the best Austen works, on the page as well as the screen,鈥� he still found Beckinsale鈥檚 performance intriguing, writing that 鈥渢here aren鈥檛 great depths to the role, but Beckinsale excels with the long speeches and in defining her character as a very self-aware egoist.鈥�